Hassan Ghul

Hassan Ghul (died 1 October 2012) was a Pakistani member of al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Islam. He was a courier for al-Qaeda, known as a trusted emissary and a top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Under interrogation from the United States, he helped to bring down Bin Laden, but when he was released, he was killed in a drone strike in 2012.

Biography
Hassan Ghul was born in Pakistan, and he became a member of al-Qaeda as well as the Kurdish group Ansar al-Islam in Iraq. Ghul was one of the men considered to be responsible for the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and was said to be responsible for funding al-Qaeda before 9/11. Ghul was captured in 2004 by Kurdish Peshmerga forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Kalar, near the border of Iran, either entering Iraq with money and bomb schematics for his al-Qaeda boss Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or leaving Iraq to bring reports of successful suicide bombings into Iran. He was turned over to the United States, who discovered lots of his associates and al-Qaeda plots from his USB flash drive, two CDs, and letters. In June 2007, he was held in a CIA black site, unaccounted for by Human Rights Watch, Cageprisoners, Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York University School of Law. He helped the US to identify Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, who was a courier for Bin Laden, and this information led to Bin Laden's downfall. He was released later in 2007, and returned to his militants and the battlefield soon after.

Ghul was killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan on 1 October 2012. A picture posted by The Washington Post on the TWP website and Drones Watch was said to be him, and although The Washington Post later removed the picture and stated that it was not of him (and that there were no other pictures of him), Drones Watch kept the picture.